Chapter 6: Day 5 :Tsukasa Goes Home
Tsukushi woke that morning both happy and sad all at the same time. Tsukasa was being released from the hospital today and although she was happy that he appeared to be getting better at the same time she didn't want to face now having to visit him at the Doumyouji mansion. The fact that he was not also well enough to well.. yeah . take her up on her bargain for her time was also worrying her a bit. Although Tsukasa seemed to be much more friendly towards her she wasn't sure wither it was because he was subconsciously starting to remember her or else he figured that the best way to get her to actually sleep with him at the end of this was to play Mr. nice guy. Tsukushi was so frustrated. She didn't know what to do. Today was just going to be a big waste of time and she knew it. First they would all wait in the hospital for Tsukasa to be realized and then they would spend ages moving him back into his home. She would get no time alone with him today to try and bug him into remembering her. Well I guess she could look on the bright side at least he wasn't refusing to spend time with her. Him completely rejecting her would be much worse then this. With these thoughts Tsukushi finally dragged her butt out of bed and into the shower. She got out about 10 minutes later with a towel draped around her body when she heard the knock at her door. Who on earth would that be??? No thinking too much about her state of undress she went and answered the door only to find Soujirou standing there staring at her.
"Nice Towel" he said casually.
It was then that Tsukushi shrieked and called him a pervert and ran into her room to get dresses. From there she shouted at him, "What are you doing here at this time in the morning???"
"Well Tsukasa phoned already and is anxious to be pick up and out of the hospital. Rui was supposed to come get you but he refused to get out of bed and I lost the coin toss between Akira and myself downstairs." He said as if it was nothing.
"I see" Tsukushi said as she reappeared out of the bed room in a skirt and blouse set that Tsukasa bought her. She was at the same time also trying to get her two hair pins to pin her hair properly.
"Here let me help" offered Soujirou and before Tsukushi had an opportunity to protest he took the hair pins and placed them properly into her unruly hair. "There you go. You ready or else Doumyouji is bound to call again any minute to yell at us."
"Yeah. Soujirou, where did you learn how to fix girls hair??" inquired Tsukushi.
"Umm.. a few of my girlfriends but don't tell anyone ok. I don't tell Doumyouji about you showing up to the door in the towel and you don't tell anyone about my hidden talent. Ok." Ask Soujirou.
"As if you would ever tell Doumyouji!!!" she bantered back before she got a sad look in her eyes knowing that the Tsukasa they were going to go rescue from the hospital may not even care that Soujirou had seen her in her towel and with that thought she began to turn bright red.
Soujirou just started there at Tsukushi seeing the emotions playing on her face. He decided that he wouldn't let her dwell on any of it. Despite the fact he wasn't as sensitive as Rui about these things Tsukushi was still his friend and he didn't want to see her hurting. "Come on Akira's waiting and if we don't get back down there soon he might be tempted to try and steal my car." Soujirou said jokingly.
Tsukasa had been up since early that morning. He was just plain impatient to be getting out of this stupid hospital. He was so happy he wouldn't have to spend another night her but he might miss the days. Tsukushi was so nice to him when she thought he was ill. Well to tell the truth she just restrained herself from killing him with all the things he pulled. He definitely liked this girl and felt that things would only get better now that he was released. Where were those guys? He felt like he had been waiting out in front of the hospital for days now instead of a few minutes.
It was then a red sports car came speeding around the corner and came to stop abruptly in front of him. "Looking for a date???" joked Akira.
"Yeah. The lady in the back seems to think you're cute." Added Soujirou. During all this Tsukushi just wanted to melt into the seats of the car. That and she thought she was going to be sick from Soujirou's driving. She never imagined that anyone could be worse than Tsukasa. She was wrong.
Tsukasa was not amused by their bantering and proceeded to yell at his two friends while ignoring the cowering Tsukushi in the back seat. "Where the hell have you guys been I've been waiting out here for hours. Did you baka's forget how to get here. Never mind. Put my stuff in the trunk and let's get going." Tsuaksa made the last thing an order and not a request and the two knew it. It was after Akira had gotten out of the car to put his bag in the trunk that he noticed that Tsukushi was in the back seat and looking a little green. "Ummm.. Tsukushi are you alright??" he said catiuosly. Mostly with the way she looked he wasn't certain he wanted to sit with her for the trip home but at the same time he was a little worried.
"Yeah.. it's just Soujirou's driving. All be alright when the car stops moving." Replied Tsukushi.
"The car has stopped moving." Tsukasa replied calmly to Tsukushi and then turned to yell at Soujirou for his bad driving. "What do you think you were doing driving like that. You are a moron. Maybe I should have just gotten a driver to pick me up" Tsukasa had turned into his I'm Doumyouji Tsukasa, how dare you treat me or anyone I like badly. It really was quite funny. "Just get in the care." Responded Soujirou. "I'll drive more carefully on the way to your place. You ok back there Makino?
"Tsukushi heard someone talking to her but the spinning her head was doing just wouldn't clear and she really wanted to go back to sleep. Why did she ever answer that door this morning but she knew she had to say something so she said the only thing she was capable of "yeah"
Soujirou accepted that as she was fine and ordered Tsukasa and Akira back into the car. Tsukasa got in the back seat with Tsukushi and carefully moved her over so she could rest her head on his shoulder. He knew how bad Soujirou's driving could be and wasn't too surprised that Tsukushi looked green. It took years to get a tolerance for it but at least he knew that with him in the car Soujirou would drive carefully because if he didn't he would kill him.
Tsukushi's head finally started to clear about half way back to Tsukasa's. It was then she noticed that she was using him as her own personal pillow. She then looked up at him and noticed that he was giving Soujirou a death glare into his rear view mirror to prevent him from even thinking about driving the way he did to the hospital. Tsukasa then realized the warm spot on his shoulder was gone and turned to look at Tsukushi. "Feeling better??" was all he asked and all she did was nod in return. "That's good." He said. What a weird conversation they were having. It wasn't too much longer that they were pulled into Tsukasa's driveway.
"We're here safe and sound" Announced Soujirou sarcastically.
"Yeah" added Akira. "Man that was the most boring car ride I have ever taken." Tsukasa took it as an excuse to hit him for being such a jerk. "Man what was that for??"
"For being an insensitive jerk." Tsuaksa responded. Tsukushi couldn't believe her ears. Tsukasa taking about being sensitive. Now that was funny. Him saying that suddenly start to make her feel a lot better all of a sudden. "Now thank you for the ride home but I'm certain that Tsukushi is more then capable of settling me back into home with out your guys help." Mostly he just wanted some time alone with her without the bumbling idiots around. That and well. He shouldn't really need a reason to want to be wit his girlfriend. Yeah girlfriend he liked the sound of that. "Ready to go Tsukushi??"
"Umm yeah." She replied. She didn't really want to go into his house but then again she shouldn't have anything to fear. Right she keep telling herself. Finally she swallowed her fear and got out of the car and followed Tsukasa into the house. Only seconds after she heard the tires of Soujirou's car screeching out the driveway onto the street. The two of them were alone.
"Welcome home young master, Miss Makino" greeted one of the maids. "Here let me take this up to your room. There is breakfast ready for you in the dinning room."
Tsuaksa was glad to see that the staff was being friendly to Tsukushi who seemed to be cowering just inside the door way as if she expected something to bite her. "Thank you" and with that he dismissed the maid and took Tsukushi's hand to lead her into the dinning room. "It's ok you know. Nothing is going to hurt you here."
"Yeah well you only say that because you can't remember. Do you think we could eat breakfast in your room instead? I think I might be more comfortable there." Tsukushi asked. His room was really the only place in the mansion that she felt comfortable. Probably because it was the only room she had spent time since she was always evading Kaede's henchmen.
Well Tsukasa was definitely interested she seemed to have been in his room. Well he guess they could collect trays of food and take it up there. "Well I guess we can eat there but only if you can find it" he said thinking he was being smart. This would be test for her. Surely is she was his girlfriend she would be able to find her way to his room that she requested to eat in.
"Umm ok" Tsukushi said sensing this was some sort of test. She was really starting to wish that she had paid more attention to how to get to Tsukasa's room from the inside of the house instead of the outside but then again she was a weed. She could do it.
Well they got plates of food and were off through the maze that Tsukasa calls a home. Tsukushi knew she could do this she just had to think about where she was on the outside. That and try to remember where his room was from one of the first times she was here when she went there the normal way. To her it felt like it was taking ages but to Tsukasa she seemed to know the way a bit too well. He was for the first time really starting to believe her.
"Here" Tsukushi announced as they arrived at Tsukasa's door.
She was right he was amazed and a little taken a back but he dealt with it and opened the door only to find that the room wasn't quite the way he remembered. Things had moved places and there was a cute teddy bear on his bed.
Tsukushi could see that things weren't the way he remembered them. She was fairly certain the old Tsukasa would not have displayed a teddy bear on his bed. He would be probably just as shocked later when he found a couple of her spare outfits in the closest. Which was his doing since he said that if she insisted on climbing over the balcony and through the hedges to come see him the least he could do is have a change of clothed for her. At the time she took it to mean that he thought that she was repulsive when dirty but mostly he just wanted her to be comfortable, especially since a couple of times she had ruined her clothes doing just that.
"Well how about we sit down, watch some T.V. and eat our breakfasts." Suggest Tsukasa that was starting to feel like he wished he was still in the hospital since home seemed so strange to him.
"ok" was all Tsukushi said as she went and sat down on the couch and fished the remote out if its hiding place.
"How did you know where that was?" inquired Tsukasa. Not even his sister knew where he hid his remote.
Tsukushi thought of something clever to say but instead just uttered "You showed me so I could flip channels and keep myself busy when you were in the shower or scrounging us up food. Why is it that big of a deal that I know?"
"I guess not" he conceded and they continued to eat with cartoons playing on his T.V.
The rest of the day passed with the two of them just staring around the room in silence. Tsukushi wasn't certain how to help him deal with the fact his own room seemed like a strangers and all Tsukasa could to was look at Tsukushi and then look at his room and concentrate real hard telling him self to either remember or for the room to change back to the way he remembered it but neither of them happened.
It was a little after lunch when Tsukushi realized that if she didn't leave now she would be late for work. Besides Tsukushi was starting to think that Tsukasa would be happy to see her go considered the blank look on his face ever since they got home. "Tsukasa, I have to leave for work now."
He blinked several times until her words registered that she was leaving. "Ok, I'll walk you to the door."
"Ok" she muttered. That was rather kind of him. He must be more frazzled then she thought.
Once at the front door she was about to leave without giving him his usual kiss good-bye but he interceded by giving her one this time. "Thank you Tsukushi for helping me move back home. You'll come by and see me tomorrow, right?" He asked sheepishly.
"Yeah I'll be here around lunch time, ok?"
"OK" he replied and with that she was off to work and he was left to continue staring at his room trying to make sense of things. He was more confused as ever. All this time he really thought that she was just some trick the guys were playing on him. That she was just a mutual friend, but now it was obvious to him that she probably was who she said she was and he was going to have to actually try to remember her. Not only because she wants him to remember but because he needs to remember so everything can make sense.
End Chapter 6.
As always please read and review.
Tsukushi woke that morning both happy and sad all at the same time. Tsukasa was being released from the hospital today and although she was happy that he appeared to be getting better at the same time she didn't want to face now having to visit him at the Doumyouji mansion. The fact that he was not also well enough to well.. yeah . take her up on her bargain for her time was also worrying her a bit. Although Tsukasa seemed to be much more friendly towards her she wasn't sure wither it was because he was subconsciously starting to remember her or else he figured that the best way to get her to actually sleep with him at the end of this was to play Mr. nice guy. Tsukushi was so frustrated. She didn't know what to do. Today was just going to be a big waste of time and she knew it. First they would all wait in the hospital for Tsukasa to be realized and then they would spend ages moving him back into his home. She would get no time alone with him today to try and bug him into remembering her. Well I guess she could look on the bright side at least he wasn't refusing to spend time with her. Him completely rejecting her would be much worse then this. With these thoughts Tsukushi finally dragged her butt out of bed and into the shower. She got out about 10 minutes later with a towel draped around her body when she heard the knock at her door. Who on earth would that be??? No thinking too much about her state of undress she went and answered the door only to find Soujirou standing there staring at her.
"Nice Towel" he said casually.
It was then that Tsukushi shrieked and called him a pervert and ran into her room to get dresses. From there she shouted at him, "What are you doing here at this time in the morning???"
"Well Tsukasa phoned already and is anxious to be pick up and out of the hospital. Rui was supposed to come get you but he refused to get out of bed and I lost the coin toss between Akira and myself downstairs." He said as if it was nothing.
"I see" Tsukushi said as she reappeared out of the bed room in a skirt and blouse set that Tsukasa bought her. She was at the same time also trying to get her two hair pins to pin her hair properly.
"Here let me help" offered Soujirou and before Tsukushi had an opportunity to protest he took the hair pins and placed them properly into her unruly hair. "There you go. You ready or else Doumyouji is bound to call again any minute to yell at us."
"Yeah. Soujirou, where did you learn how to fix girls hair??" inquired Tsukushi.
"Umm.. a few of my girlfriends but don't tell anyone ok. I don't tell Doumyouji about you showing up to the door in the towel and you don't tell anyone about my hidden talent. Ok." Ask Soujirou.
"As if you would ever tell Doumyouji!!!" she bantered back before she got a sad look in her eyes knowing that the Tsukasa they were going to go rescue from the hospital may not even care that Soujirou had seen her in her towel and with that thought she began to turn bright red.
Soujirou just started there at Tsukushi seeing the emotions playing on her face. He decided that he wouldn't let her dwell on any of it. Despite the fact he wasn't as sensitive as Rui about these things Tsukushi was still his friend and he didn't want to see her hurting. "Come on Akira's waiting and if we don't get back down there soon he might be tempted to try and steal my car." Soujirou said jokingly.
Tsukasa had been up since early that morning. He was just plain impatient to be getting out of this stupid hospital. He was so happy he wouldn't have to spend another night her but he might miss the days. Tsukushi was so nice to him when she thought he was ill. Well to tell the truth she just restrained herself from killing him with all the things he pulled. He definitely liked this girl and felt that things would only get better now that he was released. Where were those guys? He felt like he had been waiting out in front of the hospital for days now instead of a few minutes.
It was then a red sports car came speeding around the corner and came to stop abruptly in front of him. "Looking for a date???" joked Akira.
"Yeah. The lady in the back seems to think you're cute." Added Soujirou. During all this Tsukushi just wanted to melt into the seats of the car. That and she thought she was going to be sick from Soujirou's driving. She never imagined that anyone could be worse than Tsukasa. She was wrong.
Tsukasa was not amused by their bantering and proceeded to yell at his two friends while ignoring the cowering Tsukushi in the back seat. "Where the hell have you guys been I've been waiting out here for hours. Did you baka's forget how to get here. Never mind. Put my stuff in the trunk and let's get going." Tsuaksa made the last thing an order and not a request and the two knew it. It was after Akira had gotten out of the car to put his bag in the trunk that he noticed that Tsukushi was in the back seat and looking a little green. "Ummm.. Tsukushi are you alright??" he said catiuosly. Mostly with the way she looked he wasn't certain he wanted to sit with her for the trip home but at the same time he was a little worried.
"Yeah.. it's just Soujirou's driving. All be alright when the car stops moving." Replied Tsukushi.
"The car has stopped moving." Tsukasa replied calmly to Tsukushi and then turned to yell at Soujirou for his bad driving. "What do you think you were doing driving like that. You are a moron. Maybe I should have just gotten a driver to pick me up" Tsukasa had turned into his I'm Doumyouji Tsukasa, how dare you treat me or anyone I like badly. It really was quite funny. "Just get in the care." Responded Soujirou. "I'll drive more carefully on the way to your place. You ok back there Makino?
"Tsukushi heard someone talking to her but the spinning her head was doing just wouldn't clear and she really wanted to go back to sleep. Why did she ever answer that door this morning but she knew she had to say something so she said the only thing she was capable of "yeah"
Soujirou accepted that as she was fine and ordered Tsukasa and Akira back into the car. Tsukasa got in the back seat with Tsukushi and carefully moved her over so she could rest her head on his shoulder. He knew how bad Soujirou's driving could be and wasn't too surprised that Tsukushi looked green. It took years to get a tolerance for it but at least he knew that with him in the car Soujirou would drive carefully because if he didn't he would kill him.
Tsukushi's head finally started to clear about half way back to Tsukasa's. It was then she noticed that she was using him as her own personal pillow. She then looked up at him and noticed that he was giving Soujirou a death glare into his rear view mirror to prevent him from even thinking about driving the way he did to the hospital. Tsukasa then realized the warm spot on his shoulder was gone and turned to look at Tsukushi. "Feeling better??" was all he asked and all she did was nod in return. "That's good." He said. What a weird conversation they were having. It wasn't too much longer that they were pulled into Tsukasa's driveway.
"We're here safe and sound" Announced Soujirou sarcastically.
"Yeah" added Akira. "Man that was the most boring car ride I have ever taken." Tsukasa took it as an excuse to hit him for being such a jerk. "Man what was that for??"
"For being an insensitive jerk." Tsuaksa responded. Tsukushi couldn't believe her ears. Tsukasa taking about being sensitive. Now that was funny. Him saying that suddenly start to make her feel a lot better all of a sudden. "Now thank you for the ride home but I'm certain that Tsukushi is more then capable of settling me back into home with out your guys help." Mostly he just wanted some time alone with her without the bumbling idiots around. That and well. He shouldn't really need a reason to want to be wit his girlfriend. Yeah girlfriend he liked the sound of that. "Ready to go Tsukushi??"
"Umm yeah." She replied. She didn't really want to go into his house but then again she shouldn't have anything to fear. Right she keep telling herself. Finally she swallowed her fear and got out of the car and followed Tsukasa into the house. Only seconds after she heard the tires of Soujirou's car screeching out the driveway onto the street. The two of them were alone.
"Welcome home young master, Miss Makino" greeted one of the maids. "Here let me take this up to your room. There is breakfast ready for you in the dinning room."
Tsuaksa was glad to see that the staff was being friendly to Tsukushi who seemed to be cowering just inside the door way as if she expected something to bite her. "Thank you" and with that he dismissed the maid and took Tsukushi's hand to lead her into the dinning room. "It's ok you know. Nothing is going to hurt you here."
"Yeah well you only say that because you can't remember. Do you think we could eat breakfast in your room instead? I think I might be more comfortable there." Tsukushi asked. His room was really the only place in the mansion that she felt comfortable. Probably because it was the only room she had spent time since she was always evading Kaede's henchmen.
Well Tsukasa was definitely interested she seemed to have been in his room. Well he guess they could collect trays of food and take it up there. "Well I guess we can eat there but only if you can find it" he said thinking he was being smart. This would be test for her. Surely is she was his girlfriend she would be able to find her way to his room that she requested to eat in.
"Umm ok" Tsukushi said sensing this was some sort of test. She was really starting to wish that she had paid more attention to how to get to Tsukasa's room from the inside of the house instead of the outside but then again she was a weed. She could do it.
Well they got plates of food and were off through the maze that Tsukasa calls a home. Tsukushi knew she could do this she just had to think about where she was on the outside. That and try to remember where his room was from one of the first times she was here when she went there the normal way. To her it felt like it was taking ages but to Tsukasa she seemed to know the way a bit too well. He was for the first time really starting to believe her.
"Here" Tsukushi announced as they arrived at Tsukasa's door.
She was right he was amazed and a little taken a back but he dealt with it and opened the door only to find that the room wasn't quite the way he remembered. Things had moved places and there was a cute teddy bear on his bed.
Tsukushi could see that things weren't the way he remembered them. She was fairly certain the old Tsukasa would not have displayed a teddy bear on his bed. He would be probably just as shocked later when he found a couple of her spare outfits in the closest. Which was his doing since he said that if she insisted on climbing over the balcony and through the hedges to come see him the least he could do is have a change of clothed for her. At the time she took it to mean that he thought that she was repulsive when dirty but mostly he just wanted her to be comfortable, especially since a couple of times she had ruined her clothes doing just that.
"Well how about we sit down, watch some T.V. and eat our breakfasts." Suggest Tsukasa that was starting to feel like he wished he was still in the hospital since home seemed so strange to him.
"ok" was all Tsukushi said as she went and sat down on the couch and fished the remote out if its hiding place.
"How did you know where that was?" inquired Tsukasa. Not even his sister knew where he hid his remote.
Tsukushi thought of something clever to say but instead just uttered "You showed me so I could flip channels and keep myself busy when you were in the shower or scrounging us up food. Why is it that big of a deal that I know?"
"I guess not" he conceded and they continued to eat with cartoons playing on his T.V.
The rest of the day passed with the two of them just staring around the room in silence. Tsukushi wasn't certain how to help him deal with the fact his own room seemed like a strangers and all Tsukasa could to was look at Tsukushi and then look at his room and concentrate real hard telling him self to either remember or for the room to change back to the way he remembered it but neither of them happened.
It was a little after lunch when Tsukushi realized that if she didn't leave now she would be late for work. Besides Tsukushi was starting to think that Tsukasa would be happy to see her go considered the blank look on his face ever since they got home. "Tsukasa, I have to leave for work now."
He blinked several times until her words registered that she was leaving. "Ok, I'll walk you to the door."
"Ok" she muttered. That was rather kind of him. He must be more frazzled then she thought.
Once at the front door she was about to leave without giving him his usual kiss good-bye but he interceded by giving her one this time. "Thank you Tsukushi for helping me move back home. You'll come by and see me tomorrow, right?" He asked sheepishly.
"Yeah I'll be here around lunch time, ok?"
"OK" he replied and with that she was off to work and he was left to continue staring at his room trying to make sense of things. He was more confused as ever. All this time he really thought that she was just some trick the guys were playing on him. That she was just a mutual friend, but now it was obvious to him that she probably was who she said she was and he was going to have to actually try to remember her. Not only because she wants him to remember but because he needs to remember so everything can make sense.
End Chapter 6.
As always please read and review.